Dodge City times., 1887-12-29
TRAIN ROBBERS.
Seven Men Attempt to Rob a
Train on the Missouri Pa
cif1c,
Bnt Are Defeated by the Bravery Of
the Messenger-The NO-Aan's-
Land Horror.
More Dead Podies Discovered Serious
Shooting Affair in Keutucky-Fratri-
eide in St. Louis.

DENNISON, Tex, Dec. 26-YeSterday
when train No 2O7 On the Missouri Pacific,
south bound. pulled out Of Atoks. /. T., two
men boarded the engine. covered Engineer
Ragland and his fireman with their guns
and ordered them to go on and stop at
Boggy Bridge, small creek north of
Stringtown. When that point was reached
the train was stopped and the engineer and
fireman put under guard. Here five others
joined the gang. Three went to the express
car, the door being open, the messenger
supposlng the train had reached a station.
Pacific Express Messenger John Grimshaw
went to the door just as the men appeared.
Seeing their Winches;ers he took in the
situation and pulled shut the heavy door
in their faces before resistance could
be offered. He then put out the lights an
he and baggageman Sparrow, who was in
the car at the time, fortified themselves
between the express freight. Armed with
their pistols they lay down to await the re-
suits. The roboers. failing to get within
the cars, engineer Ragiand was brought
forward to effect an entrance with o chisel
and hammer, but was unable to get in.
This exasperated the robbers, who cursed
the messenger and ordered him to open the
car or they would set 1t on fire. They fired
into the Car score of bullets. While this
was going on, Brakeman James Harvest
got of the train and was shot ut by one Of
the robbers, but was not hit. The robbers
| fired three shots into the mail Car, in which
were W. W. Glover, clerk in charge, help
! er 5. II. Armstrong, and another assistant.
After firing thirty or forty shots into the
express car and failing to secure an
entrance, they fred volley into the Pull
man sleeper and then gave up the job and
allowed the train to proceed, having de-
tanned it thirty minutes. Indian Territory
officers are after the robbers, who had
horses hitched in the tim Der near by.
THE KELLY FIENDs.
! WICHlTA, Kan, Dec. 26.-S. T. Gregg,
representing St. Louis house, arrived in
the city yesterday from No Mans Land,
confirming The reports Of the bloody deeds
of the Kelly family, and adding further
particular to the story. He says he can
remember stopping at the Kelly house to
get meals 1t was one story, bat wi h
barn q short distance away. His former
trip there, about the 10th Of November, he
missed tine family aud did not know what
had become of them. In the last trip he
was told ut Oak City the particulars
Of the fnl soon after an investi-
CATION had been mads. Beneath the
house was found cellar III which
was the decomrOsei remains Of q man
This body lay almos: beneath trap which
has been built OH the floor. In one corner
of the cellar was found two other bodies
both so far decOmposed as to be unreccg-
nlzable But as was Informed, and see
Mr.. Randolph, of Chicago, has omitted to
say" he continued, 'there were four bod
les buried beneath the stable, one If which
was woman. A cowboy going by the
name of '.Texy." who said he was with the
second investigating party, says that the
first bodies found led 10 so much talk that
the whole premises for reds around the
house was searched. Lying alongside OF
the barn, buried at u depth IF not over thre
feet was unearthei first the remains Of
man. who appeare d to be be ter Dire Ssed than
any of the others, and who, it was believed.
was the body of the nissiong j. I. Taylor.
About two feet away was second body
not at all recognizable. At the corner OF
the barn were buried the bodies of the
third man and woman. The bodies were
taken from their resting places and gwen
burial Nothing has been heard Of Kelly
since they removed. There IS "a feeling
however, that with their ill-gOttea gains
they have removed to Old Mexico. liz
speaking of the personal appearance ct the
family, Gregg says there was nothing par
ticularly diSagreeable about them. They
We're very commonplace | eOple, in fact.
The family included bcsides the parents,
Il son and daughter. Neither of them
seemed over twenty years Ut age. He
also brings news of the death Of James
Owens, the sheep raiser from Illinois.
KENTUCKY's CHRISTMAS EVE.
CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 26-At midnight
Saturday night the sheriff of Kenton
County. KY, received Il telegram from the
toli-gatekeepcr at Erlanger, avillage about
eight miles from Covington ON the Clncln.
natl Southern railroad reading:
ERLANGEIs, KY, Dec. 24.-Send officers.
Bloody riot. JEFF CHILDERs
The sheriff and posse went from Cow
ington AMI fund that some young men Of
Boone County, where prohibition prevails.
who had made Erlanger their base O.
supplies Of liquor and had been assem-
bling there Saturday nights aud drink
ing at John Connor's saloon, disliked
Albert Gates, the barkeeper, and having
gwen him notice to quit, decided Saturday
night to drive HIM away. they got up a
fgnt in the saloon late at night, and Gates
put them out. Th ere were seven in the
gang, and Gates barred the door. The
party retuI ned and was refused admission,
and they smashed in the windows with
stones and trel pistols through the doors
and windows. Gates and hIs companions
returned the fire. The assailants retired
to reload, and return ID and made rush at
the house, when the three men within fired
from The windows with deadly effect, shout
ing Rome Kespus in the thigh ami arm;
Frank Respus in the head, intiicting very
bad wound: Ben Stevens in the face. the
ball lodging near the ear, and John Dorsey
in the breast aud leg. The wounded men
were taken In wagons to Florence, KY.
FRATRICIDE.
ST. Louis, Dec. 26.-AbOut ten this morn
ing John and Owen Donovan, brothers, re-
siding on North Eighth street, got IN
quarrel and fight, in which the latter was
stabbed to death. The murderer was ar |
rested and jailed. The body of Owen was |
removed to the morgue.
One of the brightest men that ever at |
tended Harvard College was Sumner Paine, |
sen of Heary w. Paine, leading lawyer |
of Boston. Paine always led his class at !
the college, as he had done before at the |
Boston Latin school, without study or ef- |
fort. 1t was during the war, snd just be- |
fore the battle OF Gettysburg, that one OF
the professors Of Ihe college, who was
much disliked by the students by reason of |
his arrogant manner. was about 10 be mar. |
ried. Tue evening of the wedding Paine |
headed a band OF students who, just as |
the professor was about to 20 to the house |
of the bride to be married, locked him in |
his room and prevented hi N from being on |